Aestheticism Postmodernism and Displacement in Jhumpa Lahiri's Fiction: A Novel View of the Search for Fulfillment by Obliviating the Past

This research explores how the desire to break with the barriers of tragic past and seeking survival in another world gives a new perspective to Diaspora. It is not the existence in the new world which causes the disaster of individuals; rather it is the tragic past which destroys their lives totally. Moreover the rejection of old habits traditions and conditioning and a merging with the culture of the new context is an existing issue of the postmodern transcultural world. The feeling of home is like something haunting and dark which frightens the people. Their quest of survival in a transcultural world and their will to sacrifice their relations for that reason is an insight into situations of fast changing social fabric in India. The male and the female agency works in order to build an individual identity and it constructs individual realities based on personal experiences. the old world and the changing perceptions of the new world.